First Poem for Thursday 5 2024 I STAND WATCH Jill

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Sep 2, 2024, 9:09:34 AM9/2/24

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I am slowly filing a "lump of poems" into my six notebooks, alphabetically, by their titles.

As I do so, I read them again. For a small number, I start revising.

Here's the one I revised today. It is shorter than before and has a new last line.

I think it's better. See what you think. Jill

Jill Stockinger

I Stand Watch

in what was once
a green garden.
I scare love away
so it cannot roost.
It flaps its shining wings,
flies around fitfully
and caws jarringly.

Once there was a husband here–
when he died,
I became a scarecrow
keeping solitary watch
over a barren field,
salted with pain.